What is recorded here

Cairn Site H on Piperstown Hill is the largest stone monument there, stretching seven metres across and holding five tall kerbstones in its southern half. People may have buried their dead inside that wide circle during the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, giving the hillside a long memory of loss and continuity. The stones still stand despite later disturbance, waiting for hands to touch them and imagine the lives that vanished beneath them.

Situated on the S slopes of Piperstown Hill. A cairn known as Site H. ‘ Site H: This cairn of stones is the largest and most impressive monument on the hillside. It is irregular in plan, averaging about 7 m. in diameter, and is about 60 cm. in maximum height. In the southern half there are five large, widely spaced, vertically set kerbstones; two somewhat sirnilar stones are visible in the northern portion of the cairn and it is possible that they may also be kerbstones but as this is very doubtful they have not been plotted on the plan. There has been some recent disturbance of the cairn just south of its centre.’ This was considered by Rynne and Ó hÉailidhe (1965, 79) to be a possible burial cairn. This is part of an extensive settlement and cemetery of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date Compiled by: Paul Walsh and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 8 July 2018

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